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"Who Would Believe What We Have Heard?": Christian Spirituality And Images From The Passion In Religious Art Of New Spain, June-Ann Greeley
"Who Would Believe What We Have Heard?": Christian Spirituality And Images From The Passion In Religious Art Of New Spain, June-Ann Greeley
Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications
The colonial art of New Spain/Mexico provides the viewer with a locus of examination into the robust Christianity that emerged over time out of a native spirituality newly laden with the contours and images from the Old World theology of late medieval/early Catholic Reformation Spain. Franciscan and especially Jesuit missionaries, impelled by a devotional zealotry, championed an apocalyptic vision of hope and suff ering that was well suited for artistic expression. Religious art, whether or not patronized by European colonizers, became an instrument for the missionaries to teach and for the native artists to interrogate religious doctrine, and some artists, …
Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, And Baptists In Texas (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan
Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, And Baptists In Texas (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan
History Faculty Publications
Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.
Barton, Paul. Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. ISBN 029271291X1
Race, Nation, And Religion In The Americas, Edited By Henry Goldschmidt And Elizabeth Mcalister, R. Bryan Bademan
Race, Nation, And Religion In The Americas, Edited By Henry Goldschmidt And Elizabeth Mcalister, R. Bryan Bademan
History Faculty Publications
Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.
Goldschmidt, Henry and Elizabeth McAlister, eds. Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
ISBN 978-0195149197
City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture And Liturgical Theatrics In New Spain (Book Review), Charlotte M. Gradie
City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture And Liturgical Theatrics In New Spain (Book Review), Charlotte M. Gradie
History Faculty Publications
Book review by Charlotte Gradie.
Lara, Jaime. City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New Spain. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004.
ISBN 9780268033644
Defiance And Deference In Mexico’S Colonial North: Indians Under Spanish Rule In Nueva Vizcaya. By Susan M. Deeds, Charlotte M. Gradie
Defiance And Deference In Mexico’S Colonial North: Indians Under Spanish Rule In Nueva Vizcaya. By Susan M. Deeds, Charlotte M. Gradie
History Faculty Publications
Reviews the book "Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North: Indians Under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya," by Susan M. Deeds.
Rereading The Conquest: Book Review, Charlotte M. Gradie
Rereading The Conquest: Book Review, Charlotte M. Gradie
History Faculty Publications
Book review by Charlotte Gradie.
Krippner-Martinez, James. Rereading the Conquest: Power, Politics and the History of Early Colonial Michoacan, Mexico, 1521-1565. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.
ISBN 0-271-02129-2
Michoacán And Eden: Vasco De Quiroga And The Evangelization Of Western Mexico, By Bernardino Verástique, Charlotte M. Gradie
Michoacán And Eden: Vasco De Quiroga And The Evangelization Of Western Mexico, By Bernardino Verástique, Charlotte M. Gradie
History Faculty Publications
Reviews the book `Michoacan and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico,' by Bernardino Verastique.
Discovering The Chichimecas, Charlotte M. Gradie
Discovering The Chichimecas, Charlotte M. Gradie
History Faculty Publications
The European practice of conceptualizing their enemies so that they could dispose of them in ways that were not in accord with their own Christian principles is well documented. In the Americas, this began with Columbus's designation of certain Indians as man-eaters and was continued by those Spanish who also wished to enslave the natives or eliminate them altogether. The word “cannibal” was invented to describe such people, and the Spanish were legally free to treat cannibals in ways that were forbidden to them in their relations with other people. By the late fifteenth century the word cannibal had assumed …